'A little learning is a dang'rous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.' Who wrote these lines?
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Correct answer: B. Alexander Pope
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Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1711), Part II, which also gives 'To err is human, to forgive divine'.
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